Mind Quotes

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.
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Hate pollutes the mind.
Author Unknown
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur, lecture 1854
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great minds think alike.
Anon.
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Marilyn Ferguson
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery.
Dante Alighieri
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - A point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Crossman
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.
William Ellery Channing
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.
Confucius
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.
Frank H. Crane
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth.
Cato the Elde
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume
In obedience there is always fear, and fear darkens the mind.
J. Krishnamurti, Beginnings of Learning
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.
Tibetan Doctrine
If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, just what does an empty desk mean?
Author Unknown
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
Henry David Thoreau
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
Tryon Edwards
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
John Wilkins
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Blaise Pascal
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton
Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
Earl of Chesterfield
I want to find a voracious, small - Minded predator and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker, paleontologist
The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.
Charles Dudley Warne
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
William Penn
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Maurice Baring
Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes or products of mill or field are our country It is the splendid thought that is in our minds.
Benjamin Harrison
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Cicero